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This document serves as a companion to the ICM Global Standards for Midwife Faculty Development, providing supplementary information and insights.

High standard midwifery education is essential to producing competent midwives for the future midwifery workforce. This document provides the minimum standards for quality midwife faculty development.

This resource provides information on how to integrate the ICM Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice (2024) into a midwifery education programme. It also reviews how to design learning activities and assessments for a competency-based curriculum.

The competency mapping tool enables faculty to align their Midwifery programmes, whether new or existing, with the Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice.

This guide provides midwife educators with information on assessing the ICM Essential Competencies for Midwifery Practice. It contains an overview of competency-based assessment and examples of the most common assessments used in a midwifery curriculum.

ICM and UNFPA’s webinar spotlighted midwifery education challenges and showcased MPath resources to align programs with global standards.

The MPath resources provide midwife educators with practical tools and suggested strategies to strengthen pre-service midwifery education programs.

This document serves as a companion to the ICM Standards for Midwifery Education, providing supplementary information and insights.

This document contains advice to help midwifery educators meet the ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Education that pertain to practical/clinical experience.

ICM asserts midwifery educators must align with ICM Global Standards and WHO Core Competencies. Essential qualifications include midwifery practice, formal teaching preparation, ongoing development, and advocacy.

This glossary provides definitions for the terminology used when building a curriculum, based on the standard ICM terminology.

This guide is an overview of the key components of a post-nursing midwifery pre-service programme to help guide midwifery teachers and faculty to either develop a new credential or revise pre-existing pre-service programmes.